Please feel free to move this to meta/superuser if this is the wrong place. But this is a developer related question.
I have a smallish company with about 10 employees (developers). Often when I am browsing the internet, I come across various techniques and methods which I would like to share with them. Now one way is to simply point them to those links, but that’s not too effective as sometimes the link dies, our connectivity is down, people may want to add some comments/thoughts etc.
I am wondering what is the best way to organize all this data. Couple of questions:
Should I use a SO clone? Wiki? Digg clone?
Personally I dont want to use a wiki. I find it to be a pain to create links manually. I just want to post stuff and links and select an appropriate category and people can then view and comment etc.
How to get everyone involved in this process? SO does it well by giving points to users.
How does your company manage information?
Thank you for your time.
I quite liked a process once upon a time.
Start a knowledge base within the company using Blog/Wiki/SharePoint. SharePoint is nice in the fact that it is basically setup and go. You can modify to specific needs down the line. With this you should allow your staff to add posts or blog entries etc, and then once a week/month/whenever you should have a half day “learning” session.
In this session everyone can share idea’s and “nice-finds” and then share with their fellow staff; alternatively, you give each member of the team the opportunity to “teach” a session whereby they can share a technology they’ve found and basically pitch it to the team.
This gives the following:
The problem comes with people who are introverted, non-confident or simply do not have the time to give lessons, all of which can be overcome by lowering load, allow some to do written presentations, etc.
Hope this helps.